Wednesday 15 January 2014

Interesting Facts

The loudest land animal is the Howler monkey who’s deep growls can travel up to 3 miles in the forest.


Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil. To make 1 pound of honey, bees would have to visit over 2 million flowers.

 The Oilbird (oil bird) is the loudest bird with it’s high pitched clicking sounds.

The very first food eaten by a U.S astronaut in outer space was applesauce.

A Clark’s Nutcracker (bird) can store up to 30,000 pine nuts for the winter in over 6,000 different locations across 300 square miles and remember where at least 70% of them are, finding them even if they’re snow covered.

Twelve people have walked on the moon but the last time was 1972 so it’s now been over 40 years since anyone has stepped foot on the moon.

The 2nd president of the United States (John Adams) and 3rd president of the United States (Thomas Jefferson) both died within just a few hours apart of each other on the same exact day of July 4th 1826. They are the only two presidents to die on the same day of the same year.

For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees Celsius.

The first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in northern India. Like other 1,000+ year old games, it would have been played differently than todays rules. It’s thought that todays rules have been around since sometime in the 1400′s A.D.

A cat’s ear has a total of thirty two muscles.

Lung cancer… Thats how the cigarette company Marlboro’s first owner died.

During world war 2 the Oscar award given out by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was made of wood because most common metals were very scarce.
  
The your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain it’s self cannot feel? Your brain cannot even feel pain. Although headaches are still not all the way understood, one reason it’s believed you feel headaches is because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors.
    

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